Video: Vladimir Putin is awesome at hockey because no one will guard him

posted at 9:31 pm on May 12, 2014 by Mary Katharine Ham

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the skill set necessary to be a dictator coincides perfectly with the ability to master every single sport in the world to a degree not attained by one’s fellow countrymen and Olympians even though the time spent quashing dissent and jailing and murdering dissidents can really interfere with one’s training schedule.

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Video: Vladimir Putin is awesome at hockey because no one will guard him

Meh! Kim Jung Il of North Korea got multiple holes-in-one the first time he played golf. Obama went 0 for 22 in free shots and he routinely engages in “competitive” basketball games. It’s good to be the dictator.

I bet that Obama could get at least 9 NBA stars to let him make them look foolish on the court, and he wouldn’t even have to coerce them. Coming soon, Soetero dunking over Lebron James, shooting a three over Kevin Durant(nothing but net), and rejecting a Kobe Bryant jumper into the stands… Or maybe the White House will just re-issue the video where Obama killed a fly.

But it does mirror the world situation in a weird way. If rough, tough hockey players are afraid to get in Putin’s way, how does it make sense to send a girly-man like Obama with bike shorts under his mom jeans to oppose him?

The West should have sent Merkel, she’s tougher.

Come to think of it, Putin would probably fear Elizabeth II more than he does Obama.

I had go back to the post again to confirm it did not mention Obama. Why not keep criticisms of Obama to policies.The way he has been brought into this here tend to to suggest it is all about an irrational hatred for him, and this is quite ungodly. Really? Do you really prefer the Rusian leader to you own president? What can hatred not do?

Back in the day if you could have gotten Gordie Howe back on the ice, he would have blind-sided Putin with a hip check and put his teeth on the ice. He did that with any guy who thought he was hot stuff on the ice, even as an old man… that was Old School hockey at its best, watching guys with multi-million dollar contracts being dumped unceremoniously by someone they discounted.

Where are those sorts of players who don’t care what your title is, but are there to play the game as it must be played?

So, the point of this story is that Putin, the leader of a large foreign nation, participated in an exhibition hickey game and people are pissed no one cross checked him in the face? And who sincerely expected anything different? Does Obama in a pick up game take hard fouls, or an elbow to the face in the post?

It was an exhibition game…we see that in tennis all of the time, the top players and a celebrity in doubles and the top team just keeps hitting it back to the celebrity until the celeb makes a “great” shot.

It’s all fun, it is when it is taken seriously like “11 holes in one” or becoming the championship boxer.

Cool that Putin is active and “mixes” it up with the people.

Obama tries that with basketball, but only invites the elites of the elites and elicits foolish remarks like Kobe saying he could play in the NBA.

So, the point of this story is that Putin, the leader of a large foreign nation, participated in an exhibition hickey game and people are pissed no one cross checked him in the face? And who sincerely expected anything different? Does Obama in a pick up game take hard fouls, or an elbow to the face in the post?

guido911 on May 13, 2014 at 7:22 AM

There was a Secret Service agent that elbowed Barry in the mouth during pickup basketball. Never heard if he was reassigned.

One of those plays in the film was a 4-on-1 break–four players for the red team passing the puck around for 10 seconds vs. one defenseman and a goalie on the white team. If that wasn’t staged, other players on the white team would be racing back to try to break up the play.

Even on the other plays, nobody on the defense ever tried to check Putin or his teammates.